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John Thune: “Insurance rates and exchanges, the Obamacare exchanges, have…”

Featuring: John Thune, Republican | Senate Majority Leader, South Dakota

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Thune Joins The Ben Shapiro Show

Published | Video Starts at 02:20

But the broader point is the right one, and that is that everything that Obamacare has done, including these enhanced subsidies, has added to the cost of insurance policies. In fact, if you look from 2013 to 2025 to where we are today, Insurance rates and exchanges, the Obamacare exchanges, have gone up about 221% from 2013 to 2025. if you can believe that. And so it's done nothing but infl the cost that people are paying for health insurance across this country. And that's because the fundamental program is flawed. (02:20–02:33)

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Asserts that insurance rates on Obamacare exchanges have increased by about 221% from 2013 to 2025.

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